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Eco-Libertarian-Socialist🍉, Anthropologist (technically), I'm ADHD! PWD Recipient, #FreePalestine #AbolishTheRCMP, If you let me into a bookstore, I cannot be held accountable for my actions. Punk!
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I cannot emphasize enough how huge it is to have a formerly incarcerated person in charge of a jail system. I am crying real tears
Mayor Mamdani names criminal justice reformer Stanley Richards as NYC’s new Department of Correction commissioner
Richards is the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city’s jails system
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Richards is the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city’s jails system
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Mamdani names reformer Stanley Richards to steer chaotic Rikers complex
Exactly one month into his term, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a formerly incarcerated person to manage the facility.
gothamist.com
February 1, 2026 at 7:21 AM
I cannot emphasize enough how huge it is to have a formerly incarcerated person in charge of a jail system. I am crying real tears
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Monbiot's right, and the problem's not just UK. Climate change - or more accurately, climate catastrophe - is around the corner. Meanwhile, Canada will miss 2030 + 2035 climate targets, rolls back climate rules, fast-tracks fossil fuel 'nation-building' (nation-burning?) projects, while disasters ⬆️.
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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Thank you.
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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Monbiot's right, and the problem's not just UK. Climate change - or more accurately, climate catastrophe - is around the corner. Meanwhile, Canada will miss 2030 + 2035 climate targets, rolls back climate rules, fast-tracks fossil fuel 'nation-building' (nation-burning?) projects, while disasters ⬆️.
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Ocean Beach this morning… just wow!!
February 1, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Ocean Beach this morning… just wow!!
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Another reason to not buy US produce:
'MAHA-Washing': Trump EPA Set to Reapprove Dicamba Despite Pesticide's Harms www.commondreams.org/news/trump-d...
'MAHA-Washing': Trump EPA Set to Reapprove Dicamba Despite Pesticide's Harms www.commondreams.org/news/trump-d...
'MAHA-Washing': Trump EPA Set to Reapprove Dicamba Despite Pesticide's Harms | Common Dreams
“The fact that we’re here again after two failed attempts to fix this broken pesticide shows that Lee Zeldin and his army of industry lobbyists are utterly incapable of protecting the public,” said on...
www.commondreams.org
January 31, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Another reason to not buy US produce:
'MAHA-Washing': Trump EPA Set to Reapprove Dicamba Despite Pesticide's Harms www.commondreams.org/news/trump-d...
'MAHA-Washing': Trump EPA Set to Reapprove Dicamba Despite Pesticide's Harms www.commondreams.org/news/trump-d...
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Human rights advocates warn that new legislation could erode constitutional protections and expose Canadian marginalized communities and dissidents to U.S. investigations, surveillance and political repression
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‘Unprecedented’: Canada’s new border bills pave the way for American law enforcement overreach
Understand the implications of Canada’s new border bills that may lead to American law enforcement overreach and unprecedented challenges.
ricochet.media
January 31, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Human rights advocates warn that new legislation could erode constitutional protections and expose Canadian marginalized communities and dissidents to U.S. investigations, surveillance and political repression
ricochet.media/internationa...
ricochet.media/internationa...
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Among many other protests against ICE today, sit-ins at Target stores were held nationwide this afternoon, calling on the corporation to "stop collaborating with ICE."
Protesters with signs sang songs & chanted softly as customers passed by.
This video is from the downtown Target in Minneapolis.
Protesters with signs sang songs & chanted softly as customers passed by.
This video is from the downtown Target in Minneapolis.
January 31, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Among many other protests against ICE today, sit-ins at Target stores were held nationwide this afternoon, calling on the corporation to "stop collaborating with ICE."
Protesters with signs sang songs & chanted softly as customers passed by.
This video is from the downtown Target in Minneapolis.
Protesters with signs sang songs & chanted softly as customers passed by.
This video is from the downtown Target in Minneapolis.
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BC’s current forestry model is about simplifying complex forest ecosystems — meaning our processes and cut levels are founded on replacing most or all old and primary forest in the timber harvesting landbase with ‘managed’ forest.
Send a message to BC at vist.ly/4pvx2
Send a message to BC at vist.ly/4pvx2
January 31, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Tell me 5 classes that you took in college (university)
1) Anthropology of Virtual Spaces
2) The Globalization of Food
3) Contemptorary Moral Issues
4) Critical Issues In Anthropology
5) Anthropology of Kinship & Gender
1) Anthropology of Virtual Spaces
2) The Globalization of Food
3) Contemptorary Moral Issues
4) Critical Issues In Anthropology
5) Anthropology of Kinship & Gender
Tell me 5 classes you took in college (university)
1) Modernism
2) Formal Logic
3) Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology
4) The History of Western Music from Plainchant to Schoenberg
5) Sociological Theory
1) Modernism
2) Formal Logic
3) Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology
4) The History of Western Music from Plainchant to Schoenberg
5) Sociological Theory
Tell me 5 classes you took in college (university)
Quantum Mechanics
Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics
Literature and Film of Weimar Germany
Nonviolent Political Action
Latin American Politics
Quantum Mechanics
Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics
Literature and Film of Weimar Germany
Nonviolent Political Action
Latin American Politics
January 31, 2026 at 5:17 AM
Tell me 5 classes that you took in college (university)
1) Anthropology of Virtual Spaces
2) The Globalization of Food
3) Contemptorary Moral Issues
4) Critical Issues In Anthropology
5) Anthropology of Kinship & Gender
1) Anthropology of Virtual Spaces
2) The Globalization of Food
3) Contemptorary Moral Issues
4) Critical Issues In Anthropology
5) Anthropology of Kinship & Gender
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Canada needs to back Cuba in every sense. Hell, we should give them a nuke but that's not happening anytime soon.
Canada needs thorough denazification through schools and a cultural paradigm shift. It has never happened, and recent events are exemplary of that. Lest we burn up the beautiful place we get to call home.
The average Canadian's knowledge of our country's politics amounts to "We're the nice ones" and any historical evidence to the contrary is either non-existent or an aberration in their minds. Clearing the plains, Boer War, WWI war crimes, aiding US invasions, Somalia Affair, Haiti. All handwaved.
January 31, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Canada needs to back Cuba in every sense. Hell, we should give them a nuke but that's not happening anytime soon.
I've said for months that the Epstein files are the distraction, and today when strikes and marches took place across the Fascist States of America, the Epstein files (new batch of documents released) made the front page story. The action against the fascist empire was hardly covered at all.
January 31, 2026 at 4:24 AM
I've said for months that the Epstein files are the distraction, and today when strikes and marches took place across the Fascist States of America, the Epstein files (new batch of documents released) made the front page story. The action against the fascist empire was hardly covered at all.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @emilylowan.bsky.social You and the people have made the news again! Keep fighting!
Hundreds in Vancouver protest Hootsuite's contract with U.S. Department of Homeland Security | CBC News
Around 250 people turned out in the pouring rain on Friday evening at the headquarters of Vancouver tech company Hootsuite, protesting a recently-publicized contract with the U.S. Department of Homela...
www.cbc.ca
January 31, 2026 at 4:22 AM
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @emilylowan.bsky.social You and the people have made the news again! Keep fighting!
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Canada arrests journalists too. Just ask Brandi Morin and Justin Brake
January 30, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Canada arrests journalists too. Just ask Brandi Morin and Justin Brake
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Um…bit bold to call the story I broke on Tuesday a “Star analysis” with zero credit to me!
This is such a bummer. I worked really hard on this one.
This is such a bummer. I worked really hard on this one.
January 30, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Um…bit bold to call the story I broke on Tuesday a “Star analysis” with zero credit to me!
This is such a bummer. I worked really hard on this one.
This is such a bummer. I worked really hard on this one.
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The company that owns Thomson Reuters also owns the Globe and Mail. Reminding you once again that Reuters has US$31 million in contracts with ICE.
January 30, 2026 at 5:38 PM
The company that owns Thomson Reuters also owns the Globe and Mail. Reminding you once again that Reuters has US$31 million in contracts with ICE.
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WE WON. Celebratory gathering at 5pm @ Pattison HQ, to unpack our victory and next steps. Hootsuite ICE protest is ON as planned at 3pm, let’s crank up the heat🧊
January 30, 2026 at 8:20 PM
WE WON. Celebratory gathering at 5pm @ Pattison HQ, to unpack our victory and next steps. Hootsuite ICE protest is ON as planned at 3pm, let’s crank up the heat🧊
The word for today is Judenrat. As in the sentence "Schumer is a Judenrat".
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said the party agreed on three main goals:
° Require warrants in some cases and ICE coordination with state and local law enforcement
° Create a code of conduct and enforce it
° Require agents to wear body cams and not masks
° Require warrants in some cases and ICE coordination with state and local law enforcement
° Create a code of conduct and enforce it
° Require agents to wear body cams and not masks
Democrats demand new ICE restrictions as government shutdown looms
After federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Senate Democrats say they’ll block a massive government funding package without policy changes.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:54 AM
The word for today is Judenrat. As in the sentence "Schumer is a Judenrat".
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Canadians yearn for BYD manufacturing plants
More layoffs by US automakers in Canada shows exactly why Canada needs an auto deal with China and to try to attract Chinese companies to manufacture in Canada.
We can’t rely on US auto companies to keep making cars here, even though they still expect us to buy them.
We can’t rely on US auto companies to keep making cars here, even though they still expect us to buy them.
GM Canada layoffs hit Oshawa plant, putting up to 1,200 autoworkers out of work Friday | CBC News
The day Oshawa, Ont., autoworkers have dreaded for months has arrived, as GM Canada is poised to cut a shift at the city’s plant, costing over a thousand workers their jobs.
www.cbc.ca
January 29, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Canadians yearn for BYD manufacturing plants
Comrades! We rejoice!
Canadians have rapidly moved away from viewing China as a threat or an enemy
Read it for free here: canadianpolling.substack.com/p/canadians-...
Read it for free here: canadianpolling.substack.com/p/canadians-...
January 29, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Comrades! We rejoice!
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That’s funny, we don’t remember ever giving AI “social permission” to suck up precious water and energy resources. 🤔
Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it
Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.
www.pcgamer.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:04 PM
That’s funny, we don’t remember ever giving AI “social permission” to suck up precious water and energy resources. 🤔
Apple cider vinegar...Really? Like geez buddy, that was the best thing you could find to spray at a US representative... I know that the education system in Kansas isn't great, but I didn't think it was that bad.
January 29, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Apple cider vinegar...Really? Like geez buddy, that was the best thing you could find to spray at a US representative... I know that the education system in Kansas isn't great, but I didn't think it was that bad.
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This is not a "possibility," it is very, very obviously what's currently happening. The only reason people in power want to view it as a possibility rather than an ongoing fact is that they are scared of the implications. If it's the latter, they have to *do* something. History calls. It's scary!
"The most disturbing possibility is that the president is creating a militia which answers only to himself ... Abroad, from El Salvador to the Philippines, would-be despots often turn the army and the police against their people in the name of keeping order." www.economist.com/leaders/2026...
ICE’s impunity is a formula for more violence
Is America’s president building his own paramilitary militia?
www.economist.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:20 PM
This is not a "possibility," it is very, very obviously what's currently happening. The only reason people in power want to view it as a possibility rather than an ongoing fact is that they are scared of the implications. If it's the latter, they have to *do* something. History calls. It's scary!
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As a Canadian, what I've learned so far:
- Minnesotans are very nice and VERY organized
- Mainers are aggressively xenophobic but in a way that lCE will not like
- Philadelphians crave the blood of their enemies
- LA is ground zero for chaos tactics that never lose
- New Yorkers love gay hockey
- Minnesotans are very nice and VERY organized
- Mainers are aggressively xenophobic but in a way that lCE will not like
- Philadelphians crave the blood of their enemies
- LA is ground zero for chaos tactics that never lose
- New Yorkers love gay hockey
January 27, 2026 at 3:07 AM
As a Canadian, what I've learned so far:
- Minnesotans are very nice and VERY organized
- Mainers are aggressively xenophobic but in a way that lCE will not like
- Philadelphians crave the blood of their enemies
- LA is ground zero for chaos tactics that never lose
- New Yorkers love gay hockey
- Minnesotans are very nice and VERY organized
- Mainers are aggressively xenophobic but in a way that lCE will not like
- Philadelphians crave the blood of their enemies
- LA is ground zero for chaos tactics that never lose
- New Yorkers love gay hockey
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Can anyone turn this into a logo with a smashed chair that says "anti-chair action"? It's for a bit for a video lol
January 29, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Can anyone turn this into a logo with a smashed chair that says "anti-chair action"? It's for a bit for a video lol
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I don’t cower to bullies 💪🏽
January 29, 2026 at 3:13 AM
I don’t cower to bullies 💪🏽